Re: Workarounds for remote viewing POST or BIOS activity on headless device

["Ben McCormack" <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are looking for something called an IP KVM

This does the following

Takes the Keyboard, Monitor (Visual) and Mouse connections and converts
them to something you can access over an IP connection. Standard with a
Computer Datacentre.

I would personally look for something used on ebay

Ben

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "noughtomate" <balraj_jassal@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, for the lengthy thread description, but the title says it all.
>
> I've just finished building a rack mount server which I will be keep
in my Node Zero under the stairs. This is headless, i.e. I do not have a
monitor attached to it.
>
> I have no problems access my server using RDP connection to the
Windows based OS.  However, I am still tweaking it here and there and
occasionally need to change settings in the BIOS or need to run disk image
restores against the system disk (which is run outside windows). For these
scenario's I am unable to see the activity as my RDP session is limited to
Windows.
>
> I would imagine every server room team would have the same problems.
Is there any known method to access a remote PC while it is in POST or BIOS
configuration screens ?
>
> Due to confined space, the simplicity of using a regular sized monitor
is not an option to me. I would hope there is a software based solution
around this.
>
> If there is no option other than to use a monitor, I would prefer
something small (say 9") I could also use with my HTPC. I've checked
out the Samsung U70 (see here : http://tinyurl.com/no7tjw) which looks
nice and is cheap, but looks like it'll only work from within Windows as
it's data source is entirely via USB.
>
> Any advice is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>




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